Family firm founded in 1891 still hand-makes Noguchi's Akari lamp shades in Gifu

Ozeki & Co., a family-owned company founded in 1891 in Gifu, Japan, still makes the washi shades for Isamu Noguchi's Akari lamps, according to the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York. The shades are handmade mulberry bark washi stretched over bamboo frames. Washi is made from the inner bark of the mulberry tree.